This morning I got out on the range and FINALLY dropped the flint on frizzen!

I used 80gr 2fg Goex, 4fg goex in the pan, .490" round ball and both .015 and .020" patches.

I took my first shot, smiled, and knew it would be a good day!


Switched over to a wet lube to polish up the bore and remove any unknowns, and took 3 shots and then 2 more for a 5 shot group.



At the very top of the bull eye area are my final shots of the day! They grouped perfectly with my #1 shot with my normal hunting lube. The 4 shots LOW left were me just fiddling around with with pan charges.


The bore of this rifle is beautiful. It loads like like even shot all those shots, I didn't touch the bore once. The wet break in lube though helped keep the fouling down, but still, the hunting lube with thick .020" patches still loaded wonderfully.

I am very happy with the rifle overall.

Fast ignition, consistent spark from the frizzen, balances naturally and the butt plate doesn't cut into your shoulder and cause pain.

Two things I will change later down the road...

#1 Adjust my trigger weight a bit. Shes right around 4lbs and I am not used to that "heavy" of a trigger.
#2 Replace that black bead sight with either brass or german silver. The factory sight blobs out for me when the sun comes out from behind the clouds.

Now to get take her all apart and wash her as shes very dirty.

Looking good Devil.

haha! 50 yards. I will try 75 tomorrow. Im trying to keep my shots on hogs to 50-60 yards.

Nice shootin there young man. I could have gotten a couple good deals on those rifles but I have a bad taste in my mouth over the last Traditions ML I got. I forget what model it was but it was a break open inline. That thing was a POS to say the least.

Yes I agree bronko, and I hope MD has the good fortune of whacking a big hog with that flinter. That said, I too, am not a fan of traditions firearms. The lock on the traditions .50 flintlock pistol I bought a few years back was such a piece of crap that I decided to get rid of it without ever firing it.

BPS

I too had a bad experience with a Traditions inline. I ordered many years ago, a Traditions E-Bolt 209 inline rifle. It, it came to the house, and I cleaned it up. But the disturbing thing was, when you'd cock the rifle, you better put the bolt in the safety notch. Because that thing would fire by itself. I mean you didn't have to touch the trigger. It would just go off.

I called Traditions and they were not real helpful. In fact they doubted my claim but did offer to look at the rifle is I mailed it to them. I had purchased it at Sportsman's Guide. So I sent it back to them (lost postage of course one way) and they gave me a full refund. I had to laugh because they asked if I wanted a different rifle. But I told them, no thanks one was enough. Yet a friend of mine purchased the same rifle in .54 caliber and it worked perfect. He killed a lot of deer with it shooting my .54 caliber
REAL conicals.

Now in their traditional rifles, I own three of four of them. Two of them are the Woodsman Hawkens Rifles. One percussion and on flintlock. They are beautiful wood, perfect hardware to wood fit, excellent triggers and locks and just a pleasure to shoot.

I have taken one doe with the .50 caliber Woodsman percussion rifle 1-66 twist. It was a close shot and I put the ball in the back of her head and she went right down.

A friend I used to hunt with uses a Kentucky model with the 1-66 twist in .50 caliber. I was hunting with him one day and watched he knock a deer flat at 100 yards with that rifle. I have shot it and its a percussion, and a great shooter.

MD that is some excellent shooting!! Does your rifle have a sweet trigger like mine? Also I shoot 85 grains of 2f black powder and a .490 ball. Very accurate and hard hitting. Those groups I bet made you smile..

yes its very clean breaking. A little heavier than I am used to but the triggers are easily adjusted.

Nice shooting ! I do not shoot the old smoke pole as much as l should, I think I will get it out tomorrow and have some fun !!!

You need to!